US President Joe Biden’s declaration that the atrocities now underway in Ukraine are a “genocide” is not expected to trigger any immediate changes to US policy toward the conflict, according to US officials familiar with the matter.
Biden made clear in Iowa he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine, but said he would “let the lawyers decide” to use that designation internationally.
That was a signal the US is not making a formal declaration of genocide in Ukraine, the officials said. The US has only made eight formal determinations of genocide, most recently labeling Myanmar’s persecution of the Rohingya minority a genocide.
Doing so would trigger legal obligation under the United Nations Genocide Convention, which would require countries to intervene to prevent the genocide from advancing.
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Already, Biden’s use of the word genocide has drawn some blowback from a key US ally.
